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Agnes Giebel (1953)

Agnes Giebel (born August 10, 1921 in Heerlen , Netherlands ; † April 24, 2017 in Cologne ) was a German soprano .

Life

Agnes Giebel was born in the Netherlands and spent her first years there.

In 1925 she returned with her parents to Essen , where the family came from, and stayed there until the early 1950s. After finishing school, she first attended a commercial college. By chance, the director of the local children's choir became aware of Agnes Giebel's unusual voice when she sang works by Richard Strauss and Max Reger at a recital in 1933 . Against the initial resistance of her parents, she ensured that Agnes Giebel could study singing with Hilde Wesselmann at the Folkwang School in Essen-Werden . In 1947 Agnes Giebel began her professional career as a concert singer.

Due to the great success she was engaged in 1950 by the RIAS Berlin, where she later made frequent recordings, for a weekly series of Bach cantatas . During this time she also went on extensive concert tours with the Leipziger Thomanerchor under the direction of Günther Ramin . Agnes Giebel is one of the few singers who only became successful and known because of a concert repertoire. She was never on stage at an opera performance.

Her career lasted until the 1990s and gave rise to an extensive discography. In the course of her career she has worked with many conductors such as B. Karl Richter , Theodor Egel , Eugen Jochum , Wolfgang Sawallisch , Sergiu Celibidache , and z. B. with the singers Marga Höffgen , Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hermann Prey .

Giebel sang mainly sacred works ( cantatas , oratorios , passions , masses ) and was considered one of the best interpreters of Johann Sebastian Bach in her generation. As a lied interpreter , Giebel performed together with the pianist Sebastian Peschko, among others . It can also be seen in the famous BBC recording of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony under Otto Klemperer (1964). Her last public vocal appearances were in 1989, on the occasion of a duet evening with the Dutch tenor Jean van Ree , and in 2001 (Summer Music Days Soest, September 1, 2001, Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Night). In 2002 she was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit.

Agnes Giebel also always dealt with the theory of voice training. After the end of her active time as a singer, she continued to teach with great dedication. For the Alois Kottmann Prize she was on the jury alongside Richard Rudolf Klein , Alois Kottmann , Boris Kottmann and Margit Neubauer .

The chamber singer Agnes Giebel lived in Cologne, where she also died. Her daughter is the musician Kristina Kanders , her granddaughter is the singer Julia Giebel . Giebel was buried on May 10, 2017 at the Melaten Central Cemetery in Cologne .

literature

  • Michael Kurtz: Agnes Giebel - On the wings of song. Biography of the great soprano. Dohr Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-936655-47-6

Web links

Commons : Agnes Giebel  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soprano Agnes Giebel has died. In: ORF.at. May 4, 2017. Retrieved May 4, 2017.
  2. ↑ MGG , 2nd edition, Vol. 7, p. 928
  3. ↑ a b Soprano Agnes Giebel turns 90 ( memento from July 26, 2015 in the web archive archive.today ) In: ruhrnachrichten.de. Retrieved July 26, 2015
  4. ↑ Short biography, photos, discography
  5. ^ Agnes Giebel - Da Capo - Interview with August Everding, 1992
  6. ↑ Review of 2001 ( Memento from April 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Gable, Agnes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Heerlen , Netherlands , Kingdom of the Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH April 24, 2017
Place of death Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany